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I'm sick of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright being all over the news. The racist old fool has already gotten far more air time than he deserves, so I'm not going to bother getting into Wright's latest rounds of silliness and nonsense with Bill "Neville" Moyers and the National Press Club. Hatemongers shouldn't get this much free publicity. Hatemongers shouldn't be treated as if they have legitimacy.

When I first heard the unrepentant 60-70's Weather Underground terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn (Ayer's wife) were friends with Barack Obama, it wasn't the Obama connection that bothered me as much as the fact that William Ayers is now a Distinguished Professor Of Education at the University Of Illinois, Chicago, and Dohrn is one the American Bar Association’s governing elite, as well as the director of Northwestern University’s Children and Family Justice Center. Exactly how do you go from being a Marxist nihilist revolutionary bomber of the Pentagon, Capitol, and other government sites, attempt to murder american soldiers, aid and abet robbery and the murder of state troopers, praise the Manson family murderers, advocate for children to kill their parents, have a stated goal to destroy America...and then end up in charge of shaping the minds of our younger generation ??? Please tell me this is all some kind of joke. Please. I mean, what's next ? Too bad we killed Timothy McVeigh, or we could have made him the junior Senator from Oklahoma. Hell, let's free Charles Manson and have him do guest stints on the Dr. Phil show offering psychological advice. Welcome to your nightmare, 'Amerikkka' (that is how Ayers, Dohrn, and another Obama buddy, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, refer to our country. It's tres chic Leftspeak in Hyde Park, where Wright, Obama, Ayers, and Dohrn all live).

On September 11, 2001, the same day Islamic terrorists were crashing airliners into buildings and killing thousands of innocent U.S. citizens ('chickens coming home to roost' in Leftspeak), the New York Times ran an article about Ayers and Dohrn called "No Regrets For A Love Of Explosives." As David Horowitz reports for Frontpagemag, days after 9/11:

I feel like the world has turned upside down, because I find myself rooting for Hillary Clinton to capture the Democratic nomination, even though I'm certain she will be a more difficult candidate for John McCain to beat in november. Then again, I'm not that thrilled with McCain either. If you had told me a year ago that I'd be rooting for Hillary Clinton to win the nomination, I'd have asked you what you were smoking. How times have changed.

I've been hearing a lot of discussion about evolution and God lately. Much of it has been coming from atheists (Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, the smirking moron Bill Maher). Some, like Maher, apparently feel the need to speak up and ridicule the Pope, who is in america preaching the Christian ethic of love and brotherhood (the pervert !). Since the vast majority of atheists seem to be liberal politically, for whatever reason, I find their motives curious. I mean, would liberals ridicule Martin Luther King's civil rights message today simply because King held a steadfast belief in God ? I don't think they would. I don't think they did in the 60's either. Yet these same people gleefully and maliciously trash the world's pre-eminent Catholic figurehead. Maher said the Pope "used to be a Nazi" (false) and called the Catholic church "a child-abusing religious cult" (false). There are about a billion Catholics in the world. They aren't child-abusers, but the smirking moron Maher doesn't mind offending every one of them. Worst of all, when Maher is called out for his hatemongering, he pretends he was just joking, which he wasn't. Coward. Maher has also slipped under the covers with some pretty strange bedfellows here, like the anti-Catholic televangelist John Hagee, who has called the Catholic church "a false cult system" and "the great whore" (I don't even understand that reference. Does it have to do with the Virgin Mary ?). There are crazies on the political right too. Hagee endorsed John McCain, an endorsement McCain now wishes he had renounced rather than welcomed.

Here's something you might not have heard about, seeing as how our left-biased media (90% of newspapers, 80% of television stations) didn't bother to report on it. It concerns the other war, in Afghanistan. As every american media consumer knows, and as every Democrat happily reports, Bush abandoned Afghanistan to go into Iraq. Thus, the Taliban is returning to power and Afghanistan is going to hell due to Dubya's wrong-headed policy. That's pretty much the way they characterize it, right ? Right.

It seems Barack Obama doesn't want to have any more debates. Imagine that. After stuttering and spinning his way through two painful hours attempting to respond to some semi-tough questions from ABC in Philadelphia, Obama has had enough. According to a CNN piece, Obama claims to be too busy campaigning to have more debates.

When I heard the Senate passed S.2636, The Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008, by a vote of 84-12, I immediately wanted to know who the 12 Senators were who voted against it. Those might be 12 Senators I could support. Those might be 12 Senators interested in doing the right thing, as opposed to the pandering election year thing that actually makes the problem worse. Those 12 Senators might actually be, gasp, fiscally responsible, a notion that almost seems quaint in these days of mutually assured fiscal destruction (spend, spend, spend, borrow, borrow, borrow, tax, tax, tax, prop up the economic house of cards for another day, the future be damned, this Titanic is a really nice ship, what's that sticking out of the water up ahead ? Aw, who cares, I'm too fat and lazy to bother turning the wheel, I'm sure it will all be fine, ooh, did we hit something ?).

Lawyers give more money to political campaigns than does any other industry. During the 2004 elections, lawyers donated $183.8 million. So far in 2008, they've given $103 million, and we have 7 months to go until the election. Approximately 75% of the lawyer's money goes to Democrats. Lawyers, and specifically trial lawyers, are the Democrats number one special interest group, and have been for years. By comparison, the industry that donates the biggest percentage to Republicans is Oil/Gas. They are 16th on the industry donor list, having given $11.5 million in 2008. 73% of that goes to the GOP. You can find the donor numbers at opensecrets.org. The other big Democratic donor industries are Securities/Investment (like Bear Stearns), TV/Movies/Music (the liberal media), and Education (failing public schools/teacher's unions).

At least this time, the Left didn't slander general David Petraeus or call him a liar (not as much, anyway). There were no 'General Betray-Us' ads or references to the 'willing suspension of disbelief'. The Left learns to censor their more hideous traits, but they usually have to step in it a time or two before they do.

I remember my son when he was five, explaining to his kindergarten class what his father did for a living. 'My Daddy,' he said, 'pretends to be people.' There have been quite a few of them. Prophets from the Old and New Testaments, a couple of Christian saints, generals of various nationalities and different centuries, several kings, three American presidents, a French cardinal and two geniuses, including Michelangelo. If you want the ceiling re-painted I'll do my best. There always seem to be a lot of different fellows up here. I'm never sure which one of them gets to talk. Right now, I guess I'm the guy.

The lies and distortions are coming at us so fast and furious that it's almost hard to keep up. The historic Democratic presidential campaign has deteriorated into a daily discussion of Who's Zoomin' Who ? (my vote goes to Hillary, for Lifetime Achievement In Falsehood).